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Show 1 1 O W ' A ; Gl R L : CAN MAKE : HLK, 0N FURN I T U R E - 1 1 tf ' saa " . ' : ' . 'M II f Putting: the Final Touches to the Tea Tabic & IT Is an exp'odod theoi-j tliat a girl can't IF gsiw a board straight. Thnt tale might I J S avc een true once upon a time, but not !(,. now. when woodcraft is a subject on III which the feminine mind is turniLg with I such evident interest, and there is at a , least one shop in Now York city whore girls I make furniture. At least ten or a dozen I I gir's, swathed in high nocked, long sleeved II iprons. repair to th s btwy place daily and 91 h K,th a"n(lant enthusiasm set themselves ill I :o tbc task of"eolviu;: t,1c Tuysrorios of fell cabinet niaking In tho most 'matter of fill 'act manner possible they plane and saw. I" hammer and bore, and turn out tables and :hairs. bookcases' and desks, sideboards md china cabinets, with absolutely nothing about the furniture to indicate that it is not the work of experts in that line. Moat all girls love old mahogany furniture, furni-ture, but not all have been lucky enough to haTe had it handed down to them by obliging an-osrors. so they are proceeding to make their own. This is one of the most interesting phases of the work of the jrirl cabinet makois up at Columbia Uni- gig there is to bo seen to-dny some vory bcai- I , llful pieces of Colonial mahogany, which A will easily pass mustor Under the eagle I . jye of the expert in genuine antiques. 1 ; "T HEKB is every reason to believe, I I moreover, that tliis pretty fumituro l will br held in quite as high esteem I J by the coming generations as the truly I antiques are by their possessors to-day, I I. Tor. though great-grandmothers were Vi ikilled in many art, they -weren't fail fa-il Miliar -with that of cabinet making. 1 Neither is it a superficial study, for ,il j Ihcee girl cabinet makers not only orig- I1B inate their own designs and working IW drawings, but attond personally to every detail of the construction, even to apply- VM rug the oil or wax finish to the wood, !jl rhich, as every one knows, is a tedious Ipj f not a difficult process. U Nor it is a question of the girls qualify-j qualify-j Ing for the profcsbional side of the work I f Jiat induces them to become expert wood-tt wood-tt irorkcrs and joiners, for this, let it be ?? inown, is their technical title after the Instruction is finished, did they wish to J ! issume it- It is bolely for the purpose of I . naking the home more beautiful that they j J ire soiling their dainty hands with the j jl irimc of the work bhop. Not a few of I the girls, it is whispered, are prosprc tive brides, mid are occupying their sunv mer vacation in filling their new hornet with furniture of their own construction One of the most important things furniture furni-ture designing teaches is the appreciation apprecia-tion of the beautiful, -which is an antidote for the taste fr mongrel types that some women affect. They are taught among other things to eliminate the ugly and learn in following the teachings of William Will-iam Morris that the beauty of simplicitj and the comfort of the useful qualities in furnishing alone make for good tnste in house decoration. Armed with knowledge of this sort, there is little likelihood thnt a girl will ever be induced to buy furniture furni-ture inelegant in design, cheap in material mate-rial or poor in workmanship. SOME girls take to cabinet making more deftly than others, though curiously cu-riously enough they are quite as handy in the use of the tools as their brothers One can tell, the instructor claims, the moment a girl handles a tool whether she is a born carpenter or not. Tint n rontmt rlcit t flirv iI-iaii likilncrtil no unfiled worker, for each one was occupied oc-cupied on a task of more or less delicacy and difficulty One girl was fitting a lock lo the door of a china cabinet, another was hanging the door of her sideboard, a nd, a third was polishing down a quaint mahogany mahog-any sewing table in Colonial style, which had drop leaves and a couple of drawers for sewing materials. Others were engaged en-gaged on articles in process of construction construc-tion and deeply intent on the work in hand. A girl who finishes this course is quite capable of constructing her own furniture as the5o girls are doing, but this may not supply the artistic seuse which enables her to know absolutely the value of good lines and spaces. She becomes familiar with the technical processes of wood working, how to use working drawings, to design useful models and to sharpen and lake care of her tools. To be absolutely well informed on the subject she goes back to the beglnniug of things and learns the structure and growth of woods, interesting facts about lumbering and sawmilling and the principles prin-ciples of joinery and -wood finishing. In j short, she becomes adept in the art of (simple furniture making, as involved in I the construction of the regulation articles GOING further on the eubject. there is the library table, which, to be correct, should be thirty inches from the floor, and the writing table the same, the desk chair being sixteen inches. How many giilb in ordering a desk for heir, room I stop to think about the pigeonholes if they arc sufficient in number and of the proper size for the things sho -wishes to put in them, and the drawers for her papers and books? In her own bedroom the height of the toilet table, she learns, should be thirty inches from the floor and the chiffonier deep enongh to accommodate shirt waists unfolded, and a rocker to be comfortable should not be more than fourteen incheq. ,from the middle of the seat to the lowest 1 JIuyii i A BSSMH . ,"i 1 )iZZ j r"""' . l IIP '0MmmMt Fitting a Difficult Sash Library Tabic X,lkz l t fSBKBmSfS0KM used in furnishing a house She becomes familiar with the various processes of! finishing and decorating them as well as the mor homely but none the less ncc-' essary subjects of the use of glue, pattern pat-tern varnish and shellac, and the coat of I materials. BUT back of all this is the whole field of design which she must absorb in; order to know and appreciate what is best in furniture. She may put a chain together, but she may not altogether ap-' predate Ihe place and value of the design j she is adapting. This lack is supplied' by the art course, which parallels the joinery course. If special ornamentation) is desired instruction in carving supplies! it. The correlation between the construe-' tlon'work and art Instruction is most valuable. i Here the girl comes into intfma'tc relation rela-tion with the field of house decoration in all its branches. It is. in short, the applipa-tlon applipa-tlon of design to different uses. It shows whnt can be done to enrich the surface-, I for each material hus its own possibilities' and limitations. It develops in a conorotc j way simple things and brings the meaning mean-ing of art down from an abstraction to a I reality. For the principles of art may ;he applied lo any field, whether it be the designing of cowns or furniture. Before the girl is ready to begin do-signing do-signing her rues and carpets nnd silks she must develop originality of expression, expres-sion, invention, accuracy, and imbibe a' i real appreciation of art. and to this end ! she studies sketching, clay modelling,! mechanical drawing ending wirh a 'short 'course in architecture. Then after each; subject lias been thoroughly studied Ihe girl begins assembling her knowledge and making schemes of decoration for her rooms. She decides everything, what good work is best suited for different rooms and what sort of paper goes with It : in short, the whole color scheme is in her hands. In this connection she absorbs all sorts of useful and Interesting knowledge about textiles, from the raw material down to the finished product, To enable Iher to select materials unerringly and to I know all the processes of manufacture 'she is taken direct to the factories, '.where tho making of silks and wall hangings, wall paper and rugs are seen. She pays visits To the Metropolitan Museum Mu-seum and the lihrano. where the history of furniture and textiles' are studied in the light of the past, nnd the best adapted lo the needs of the present. More than this, she learns all about house sanitation, the making of plans aud the development of shelter, the designing of furniture. n:?tal work nnd electric light fixtures. So. when she Is through, there is very little about the home "with which . v5p Quaint Furniture for the Sewing Room she is not familiar. After this expert once neither the pliinriber nor the paper hanger, the merchant nor the decorator., can fool her as to quality, methods or cost. ' vtuJ ' MOST girls enjoy furniture from the i standpoint of comfort, the fact of the design bei inartistic or inartistic inartis-tic seldom entering into the question at all. Rut it does matter to a girl who ' studies furniture designing, for after the I practical work in wood she can never i again look upon the incongruities in fur i niture with a complaisant eye. She has been trained to differentiate between thr ' good and the poor, and only the best will satisfy her. Next to color this is of greater importance than any other thing in the decoration of a home. One or the J other may mar the decorative effect and' the two combined can play havoc in the i in u.i i cusiiy ijume. ' The relation of comfort to artistic effect ef-fect is coming to be more and more a matter for serious consideration. Few women much less young girls realize that furniture to be right should be of I relatively proper size. This is one of the things girls learn who take up Turni-tuie Turni-tuie designing and woodworking. For example, she finds that the legs of the table may be too short or ton long. It has been determined that a fair average, is twenty-nine inches from the floor. In , the matter of dining room chairs there is n bit of variation, as they may be any where from thirty-six to forty inches from thtf fioor to the top of the back, according ac-cording ''lo' the height of the occupant. I It ii undesirable to have the back too 'high, as it interferes with the table scr-I scr-I vice Tako the details of the sideboard, for example. Drawers should be carefully measured when buying, to sec if the size comports with the linen to be stored. If long table cloths are used the drawers should be long enough to accommodate them without folding. Drawers for the j silver should be linen and shallow. It I Is waste space if they are deeper than two and a kalf inches. The height of the closet in the sideboard should be sufficient to accommodate wine bottles, for, though - - i Attractive Office Furniture i ' ... xrino nmr nn v. ;n4iswi in if tVin niMi a c ' ooin t of the chair These or all siinnle arc of a relative height they will be right suggestions, hut thoy cither add or de-for de-for other things. tract from the comfort of furniture in the home and are only a few of the Ton H practical things a girl learns when sh becomes a cabinet maker of a rcaDy sci- entitle sort. ' Some girls have it in mind to lake m f U house decoration some day a a profes- iM slon, even though it isn't altogether nee ; essary, and there are many openings M not only as interior decorators but as as ! H sistants In architects' offices, for archl - t M tects nowadays very frequently take ovc , ill the entire furnishing of the house alon X ' Jl with the contract for designing it. On- Columbia College girl fills such a pofli- :l rion in Los Angoles, Cal.: another in To- l ronto and a third in St. Louis, while l some of the prettiest private homes in New Sort city are the work of their hands' H LINGERIE YOKE. B A GIRL who is the acme of daintinest . ! ha? evolved an adjustable lingerie II yoke which she uses with frocks that WM ordinarily wonld have permanent linings M across the shoulders. The advantage of M the adjustable protection is that it may be laundered frequently, aud therefore kept in a state of pristine freshness. H Only a little work does one require in ' making, too. A hemstitched handkerchief M of the size used by a man 13 selected, as it j is wide enough to cover the shouldois. '. H The girl's neck heing thirteen inch" in ' II size, she takes 11 china plate of similar . II circumference and places it n the open 1 1 handkerchief, so that fh- plate centre U i two inches nearer to one Pdge of the hem I rhan the opposite, but is in the vcr.v con- tre of what may he called the sides of Ihe yoke. A pencil line is made around the iM plntc, which is removed, nnd Ihe circle rut j nnt with a pair of sharp scissors. The ' handkerchief then is folded in two. bring- M ing together the two sides that make the open circle a semi-circle when folded. H Then the shallower side of the square ii i'l slit with scissors up to the circle, and i', rhe yoke is shaped. "The object of putting El the plate or hole a little nearer to one edge than precisely in the middle is in : order, when the yoke, is cut. that the back M shall he deeper than the front- H 1 The raw edge at rhe nook is rolled 11 under. French fashion, and whipped, the '1 raw edges of the fronts being treated hi ' i the same manner. A tiny bonding is III added, and the narrowest lace edge com- al pletcs the neck, a To hold the roU" together in front are H la co buttons- nnd loops fl The plain expanse of the handkerchief j 9 1 give ground for embellishment that may fl differ for each. On one t lie girl bus l drawn threads and made an Inset of wide l Mexican drawnwork. putting her initial- If I in monogram in one front eoniei. On yf H another yoke the initials are mi one of 'B tlio back comers, while a third has the' fj work done in colored mercerreil rotten. " J! Tboy are prett pieces of 'work to make C H and wash perfectly. They stay in plac i without tacking in the dress. j 'H - 111 PICNIC OUTFIT. OXE of the most compact and easily , jUH carried picnic outfits ever devised hai H been assembled by a girl who strougly I objects to being euinbered with a box or ' a tea basket. A child's leather school bag H has been divided by men 03 of canvas I'M leaves, stitched against tho three closed j B sides of the receptacle into three compart- . jj fl ments. t;t I Id one Gu a collapsible chafing dish and I I lamp of nickel or copper: into another a '' I set of hemstitched paper tablecloth, nap- H kina and doilies, and into a third n mo- I H rocco grained cuvelojie holding a dozen pr H more flatly folded sanitary drinking epps H rimmed wijh fine wire and fitted with wire n H handles. II This leather bag has such substantial handles that it may safely be swung from j?!H the back of a vehicle, but it is also so 'I light and wieldy that it may be com- ,1 (fortably held upon the lap or shoved into H any convenient corner. And when the. H cups and table furnishings have been usod f H 1 and thrown away the remainder of the . H .outfit will ffo into the pocket of any ulster. ,JB |
